Sec. 168.004. UNLICENSED DIABETES CARE ASSISTANT  


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  • (a) At each school in which a student with diabetes is enrolled, the school principal shall:

    (1) seek school employees who are not health care professionals to serve as unlicensed diabetes care assistants and care for students with diabetes; and

    (2) make efforts to ensure that the school has:

    (A) at least one unlicensed diabetes care assistant if a full-time nurse is assigned to the school; and

    (B) at least three unlicensed diabetes care assistants if a full-time nurse is not assigned to the school.

    (b) An unlicensed diabetes care assistant shall serve under the supervision of the principal.

    (c) A school employee may not be subject to any penalty or disciplinary action for refusing to serve as an unlicensed diabetes care assistant.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1022 , Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005.